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Last month, Biobased Maine joined a team of Maine stakeholders in San Francisco, California, for the ABLC Global 2018 Conference. The team included representatives from the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, FOR/Maine, and the Maine Technology Institute. At ABLC, the Maine team met with technology companies from around the world, including companies whose…

The Maine Development Foundation (MDF) awarded Biobased Maine executive director Charlotte Mace the 2018 Champion for Economic Development for Innovation Award at its 40th anniversary celebration on October 25, recognizing Charlotte’s work and leadership at Biobased Maine to bring the emerging global bioeconomy to Maine. At the awards ceremony, MDF praised Biobased Maine’s achievements in…

Next month, we’re off to San Francisco for the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC) 2018, a major global biotechnology conference on the most important issues in the bioeconomy right now. We’ll be attending in partnership with FOR/Maine. At the conference, we’ll take part in meetings with industry leaders from across the country and the world.…

Congratulations to Biobased Maine member Our Katahdin on its $5.3 million grant to invest in critical infrastructure at the former Great Northern Paper Mill site in Millinocket. “Our number one goal is to bring back jobs to the area. We knew that a major investment in the core infrastructure was needed to attract companies and…

Biobased Maine joined industry leaders, experts, community members, and other major stakeholders at the University of Maine in Orono on Tuesday to announce a new vision to grow Maine’s forest industry 40 percent, from $8.5 billion to $12 billion annually by 2025—by diversifying its wood products, attracting new investment, and developing economic prosperity for communities…

Please join us in welcoming new Biobased Maine member Robbins Lumber! Quality and innovation go back a long way at Robbins Lumber. When Frank and Otis Robbins first opened their small stave mill on the St. George River in 1881, it was only the beginning. Today, Robbins Lumber is a vertically integrated forest products firm…

Making a car from plants sounds impossible. But it’s not only possible—it’s been done before. As far back as 1941, in fact, Henry Ford unveiled the world’s first bioplastic car. Ford’s car used bioplastic made from soybeans for the body. “The finished car weighed 1,000 pounds less than its conventional all-steel counterpart,” author and environmentalist…

Last week, Biobased Maine traveled to Philadelphia for the 25th annual BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. At the major industry conference, representatives of Biobased Maine, Biofine Technology, LLC, and the University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Institute gave presentations on Maine’s unique assets and opportunities to an audience of national and international industry leaders and…

Issue Date: June 14, 2018 Due Date: July 20, 2018 Click here to download the RFI. RFI Purpose and Goals: The Maine Technology Institute is collecting publicly available information on technologies that could be deployed within Maine’s forest industry. The purpose of this RFI is to encourage technology companies to submit preliminary information on their…

Please join us in welcoming Marina Bowie as Biobased Maine’s new Program Associate. Marina joins Biobased Maine from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where she recently graduated with a dual degree in Economics and Sustainability. At UNH, Marina had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she saw first-hand how…